Internationally recognized ecotoxicologist, Karen Kidd, has been named the Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Environment and Health at McMaster University. Kidd, who previously held a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Chemical Contamination of Food Webs from the University of New Brunswick, is an expert in environmental health, ecology, and environmental toxicology.

Professors Sean Carey and Mike Waddington were awarded more than $3.4 million combined from the Global Water Futures (GWF) Program. Carey’s project, Mountain Water Futures, received more than $1.8 million, while Waddington’s project, Canada’s Boreal Wildlands-Society-Water Nexus, received nearly $1.6 million.